Anonymous wrote:DC is SUCH an outlier among other cities. In the region, now have higher homicides than Baltimore. I hope they reboot The Wire and base it here. With more attention and shame perhaps common sense could rein in cj, as it is in Baltimore.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rise-murders-during-pandemic-sharp-183030248.html

And some cities are bucking the positive trend, including Washington, D.C., where the murder toll continues a grim multiyear climb. The homicide tally this year is the highest in two decades, and there have been more than 900 carjacking incidents.

Washington is an exception this year even in the mid-Atlantic region. Baltimore is on track to report the fewest murders in nearly a decade and Philadelphia to post a homicide count more than 25% below its 2021 record of 562.

The randomness of crime in DC now is a big change, as is the brazenness of daytime crime and crime committed with LE nearby.

Anonymous wrote:DC is SUCH an outlier among other cities. In the region, now have higher homicides than Baltimore. I hope they reboot The Wire and base it here. With more attention and shame perhaps common sense could rein in cj, as it is in Baltimore.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rise-murders-during-pandemic-sharp-183030248.html

And some cities are bucking the positive trend, including Washington, D.C., where the murder toll continues a grim multiyear climb. The homicide tally this year is the highest in two decades, and there have been more than 900 carjacking incidents.

Washington is an exception this year even in the mid-Atlantic region. Baltimore is on track to report the fewest murders in nearly a decade and Philadelphia to post a homicide count more than 25% below its 2021 record of 562.

The randomness of crime in DC now is a big change, as is the brazenness of daytime crime and crime committed[b] with LE nearby[/b.

And some cities are bucking the positive trend, including Washington, D.C., where the murder toll continues a grim multiyear climb. The homicide tally this year is the highest in two decades, and there have been more than 900 carjacking incidents.

Washington is an exception this year even in the mid-Atlantic region. Baltimore is on track to report the fewest murders in nearly a decade and Philadelphia to post a homicide count more than 25% below its 2021 record of 562.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids ride metro. This actually does NOT make me feel better. The lawlessness in the system was directly fomented by the DC Council. It was silly when a teen was arrested for eating french fries but now we are at crack smoking on the red line during rush hour, many violent crimes and this

It wasn't silly when you got tickets for eating french fries..it kept metro clean. There was a reason for it. I grew up with that and it worked..metro has spiraled.

But she didn't get a ticket, she was arrested and put in handcuffs and that now seems quite silly in light of shootings in the system, stabbings, violence at major hubs during commuting hours no less, drug use on the trains (even heading to Bethesda, hard drugs smoked too) and the presence of many deadly weapons in the system. Maybe a broken windows approach used to keep a lid on the mayhem.

Again, the serious problems in the metro began with the actions of the DC Council who not only decriminalized fare evasion (despite kids getting free transit cards and cards being made available to the poor) but made even that not enforceable by not requiring ID and a name to be provided.

Now, DC Council members are finishing out the year by bestowing the honor of a seat on the Sentencing Commission on one of the most depraved of murderers.

We are FAR past having the luxury to worry about french fries, look at the weapons seized by metro police. Not only are DCMPD short staffed but they are pulled to work even more OT moonlighting in metro stations to supplement WMATA police and in grocery stores.

Not only are the trends not reversing, the brazenness and contempt of the Council's action toward victims and their loved ones, and the attempts to hide it, speak volumes.

I actually think it's indicative of the fact that a few anomalies/overreaches -as occasionally happen and obviously are well publicized and redressed--led to the overthrow of a lot of common sense rules, like not eating in metro or asking folks to pay fares. And now we have anarchy. I would personally prefer laws that most reasonable people can follow with the occasional law enforcement overreach and subsequent redress per case, than getting rid of all rules entirely for 'equity'. But here we are. And FWIW, I remember when Fawn Hall was cited in metro for eating a banana in metro and it made headlines, but not because people thought the rule was unfair--only because she was mixed up in Iran/Contra:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-21-mn-10146-story.html

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Anonymous wrote:My kids ride metro. This actually does NOT make me feel better. The lawlessness in the system was directly fomented by the DC Council. It was silly when a teen was arrested for eating french fries but now we are at crack smoking on the red line during rush hour, many violent crimes and this

It wasn't silly when you got tickets for eating french fries..it kept metro clean. There was a reason for it. I grew up with that and it worked..metro has spiraled.

But she didn't get a ticket, she was arrested and put in handcuffs and that now seems quite silly in light of shootings in the system, stabbings, violence at major hubs during commuting hours no less, drug use on the trains (even heading to Bethesda, hard drugs smoked too) and the presence of many deadly weapons in the system. Maybe a broken windows approach used to keep a lid on the mayhem.

Again, the serious problems in the metro began with the actions of the DC Council who not only decriminalized fare evasion (despite kids getting free transit cards and cards being made available to the poor) but made even that not enforceable by not requiring ID and a name to be provided.

Now, DC Council members are finishing out the year by bestowing the honor of a seat on the Sentencing Commission on one of the most depraved of murderers.

We are FAR past having the luxury to worry about french fries, look at the weapons seized by metro police. Not only are DCMPD short staffed but they are pulled to work even more OT moonlighting in metro stations to supplement WMATA police and in grocery stores.

Not only are the trends not reversing, the brazenness and contempt of the Council's action toward victims and their loved ones, and the attempts to hide it, speak volumes.

I actually think it's indicative of the fact that a few anomalies/overreaches -as occasionally happen and obviously are well publicized and redressed--led to the overthrow of a lot of common sense rules, like not eating in metro or asking folks to pay fares. And now we have anarchy. I would personally prefer laws that most reasonable people can follow with the occasional law enforcement overreach and subsequent redress per case, than getting rid of all rules entirely for 'equity'. But here we are. And FWIW, I remember when Fawn Hall was cited in metro for eating a banana in metro and it made headlines, but not because people thought the rule was unfair--only because she was mixed up in Iran/Contra:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-21-mn-10146-story.html

So over “defund the police.” Excuses for crime. “Anti-colonialism” and “marginalised peoples.” DEI excesses like Claudine Gay being held to the lower standard of her own “truths.”

Enough of “equity.” Let’s double down on equality: of opportunity, before the law.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids ride metro. This actually does NOT make me feel better. The lawlessness in the system was directly fomented by the DC Council. It was silly when a teen was arrested for eating french fries but now we are at crack smoking on the red line during rush hour, many violent crimes and this

It wasn't silly when you got tickets for eating french fries..it kept metro clean. There was a reason for it. I grew up with that and it worked..metro has spiraled.

But she didn't get a ticket, she was arrested and put in handcuffs and that now seems quite silly in light of shootings in the system, stabbings, violence at major hubs during commuting hours no less, drug use on the trains (even heading to Bethesda, hard drugs smoked too) and the presence of many deadly weapons in the system. Maybe a broken windows approach used to keep a lid on the mayhem.

Again, the serious problems in the metro began with the actions of the DC Council who not only decriminalized fare evasion (despite kids getting free transit cards and cards being made available to the poor) but made even that not enforceable by not requiring ID and a name to be provided.

Now, DC Council members are finishing out the year by bestowing the honor of a seat on the Sentencing Commission on one of the most depraved of murderers.

We are FAR past having the luxury to worry about french fries, look at the weapons seized by metro police. Not only are DCMPD short staffed but they are pulled to work even more OT moonlighting in metro stations to supplement WMATA police and in grocery stores.

Not only are the trends not reversing, the brazenness and contempt of the Council's action toward victims and their loved ones, and the attempts to hide it, speak volumes.

I actually think it's indicative of the fact that a few anomalies/overreaches -as occasionally happen and obviously are well publicized and redressed--led to the overthrow of a lot of common sense rules, like not eating in metro or asking folks to pay fares. And now we have anarchy. I would personally prefer laws that most reasonable people can follow with the occasional law enforcement overreach and subsequent redress per case, than getting rid of all rules entirely for 'equity'. But here we are. And FWIW, I remember when Fawn Hall was cited in metro for eating a banana in metro and it made headlines, but not because people thought the rule was unfair--only because she was mixed up in Iran/Contra:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-10-21-mn-10146-story.html

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Anonymous wrote:Socialism works great, until you run out of other peoples money.

The poor in this country pay more in taxes than the wealthiest. I believe we learned that during the investigation into Trump's taxes. Taking care of people when they put into the system is not socialism, it's called advancement & effectiveness.

Your attempts to divert a conversation about serious violent crime issues in DC makes you an enabler. This is not a thread about taxes or the bronze dude. Try harder to stay on topic or start your own thread.

Poverty and over-taxing is directly related to crime. When you have a group of people continuously being oppressed, you can expect them to return the favor through crime.

-DC just started investing in rebuilding the schools and its curriculum in the past 20 years. Prior to that, District schools were underfunded and the buildings were falling apart, who can learn or be encouraged in such conditions? (Teachers were unqualified, inadequate textbooks and curriculum, understaffed schools) And no, I don't care what immigrants do in other countries.

-DC also took forever to rebuild communities after the riots. Many rioters were outsiders during the 60s and 70s.

-Prior to Marion Barry, DC routinely refused to hire African Americans into government jobs so that they could move up the economic ladder. You had to take a civil exam, but how could one pass if your school did not have resources for textbooks and an adequate curriculum?

- Lead poisoning has been found in DC water and places where lower-income people reside affecting brain development.

-The minimum wage in the 90s was about $4 or $5, who can survive from basic wage theft by largely a capitalistic system?

- Prior to the summer youth employment program and other such programs, many poor were left without hope. Desperate people, take desperate measures.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids ride metro. This actually does NOT make me feel better. The lawlessness in the system was directly fomented by the DC Council. It was silly when a teen was arrested for eating french fries but now we are at crack smoking on the red line during rush hour, many violent crimes and this

It wasn't silly when you got tickets for eating french fries..it kept metro clean. There was a reason for it. I grew up with that and it worked..metro has spiraled.

But she didn't get a ticket, she was arrested and put in handcuffs and that now seems quite silly in light of shootings in the system, stabbings, violence at major hubs during commuting hours no less, drug use on the trains (even heading to Bethesda, hard drugs smoked too) and the presence of many deadly weapons in the system. Maybe a broken windows approach used to keep a lid on the mayhem.

Again, the serious problems in the metro began with the actions of the DC Council who not only decriminalized fare evasion (despite kids getting free transit cards and cards being made available to the poor) but made even that not enforceable by not requiring ID and a name to be provided.

Now, DC Council members are finishing out the year by bestowing the honor of a seat on the Sentencing Commission on one of the most depraved of murderers.

We are FAR past having the luxury to worry about french fries, look at the weapons seized by metro police. Not only are DCMPD short staffed but they are pulled to work even more OT moonlighting in metro stations to supplement WMATA police and in grocery stores.

Not only are the trends not reversing, the brazenness and contempt of the Council's action toward victims and their loved ones, and the attempts to hide it, speak volumes.

Anonymous wrote:Instances like that video of the attack on a congresswoman at her DC apartment building earlier this year, really made me contemplate how we address both mental health issues and violent crime. would argue that we need to bring back institutionalized mental health centers, just more in a holistic, community setting and without the raping/abuse and better oversight.